From: Dave, W1HKJ
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2025 13:48:52 GMT
Pipewire is designed to emulate the API calls made to Pulseaudio.
Emulations are not always perfect of course, it takes only one "edge case" and all bet's are off..
One thing I know Pipewire prevents, when using Pavucontrol, is renaming of the devices.? Whatever instructions I follow (that has always worked in the past) to make that facility available, it just doesn't even attempt to allow renaming.
This is on LMDE 6, LMDE 5 worked perfectly in that respect.
I have tried WirePlumber, that seems to work (device renaming also, within that application) and settings were remembered, but each time it was started, the graphical layout was "re-arranged" differently (at random, with items spread all over the UI and a tangle of "wires"!) making it almost useless for most people.
Frankly, for serious usage where "stability of settings" is needed between sessions, Pipewire still has some way to go.
Plus, detailed info about it is non existent to "varied and sketchy" if you search online for help, indicating to me anyway, that it is still someway off being suitable for prime-time distribution.
73.
Dave G0WBX.
Still, trying to figure out why I can only use one LMDE 6 PC as Root, "my" user, it seems has lost the permissions needed to allow the Cinnamon desktop to start!? (Something to do with permissions to access ports 0x00 to 0x3f!)? None of the online solutions so far have even come close to helping.?? That issue happened either during a "proper and correct" shutdown, or a later (some days) cold boot. The PC hardware is fine.
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